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“Handsome, clever and rich”, Emma Woodhouse, at not quite 21, is
the youngest of two daughters of Mr Woodhouse of Hartfield, a large
house on the outskirts of Highbury in the County of Surrey, and
therefore the scion of the most distinguished family in this
imaginary “large and populous village almost amounting to a town”
sixteen miles from London. Her father is a classic neurasthenic,
“hating change of any kind”, reluctant to leave his house for fear
of catching cold, terrified that he or anyone he knows might be
injured. Emma's mother died fifteen years ago and she has been
brought up by her governess, Miss Taylor, who has just left
Hartfield to marry Mr Weston, a neighbouring gentleman who made his
money in trade and …